Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Cooliney, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cooliney
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.32030, -8.71507
- SMR number
- CO007-045002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Approached by short avenue from road to E. Triangular graveyard (c. 40m N-S; c. 60m E-W), enclosed by stone wall to E, earthen banks elsewhere. Ruin of parish church of Cooliney (14414) in centre. In occasional use; many 18th- and 19th-century headstones noted; also many low uninscribed gravemarkers. Cross-inscribed graveslab to Thomas Dore, dated 1633 with Latin and English inscriptions, within church; cover of chest tomb outside S wall of church dated 1678 (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 2, 250; Anon. 1888-91).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.